CSCI 230 History wiki

People

• Mohammed Al-Khwarizmi 780-850
• John Von Neumann 1903-1957
• Konrad Zuse 1910-1995
• Grace Hopper 1906-1992
• Tim Berners-Lee
• James Gosling
• Street musicians
• Ada Lovelace
• Blaise Pascal
• John Vincent Atanasoff
• Alan Turing

Devices

• Pascaline
• ABC
• Transistors
• Vacuum Tube
• The Babbage Engine
• ENIAC
• Turing Machine

Notes and Observations:

• Look over the notation guides on the right to see how to edit a wiki entry.
• Keep this main page up-to-date. If you create a new topic somewhere, add it here. This form of wiki doesn't have automatic indexing (although some do.)
• Work together. This is a collaborative project. Try to reinforce each other
• You are not anonymous. Unlike many wikis, your comments are connected to your identity.
• Don't duplicate. Try not to create a new entry if it already exists. Try to make the entries interlinked.
• This is a scholarly work. Cite your sources, and do not simply 'copy and paste.' Come up with your own summaries, but also provide links to primary sources when you can.

This page is an experiment in collaborative study. Rather than a lecture on computer science history topics, you will collaborate as a team to develop your own study guide.

I've added a very general skeleton and a few 'teaser' elements, but I've deliberately left out some very important people and devices.

Your job as a class is to flesh out this page to build your own study guide.